Professor Carole Hillenbrand: List of Publications List of Contributors Introduction, Yasir Suleiman The Origin of Key Shiite Thought Patterns in Islamic History Adel Al-Abdul Jader, Kuwait Foundation for the Advancement of Sciences Additions to The New Islamic Dynasties C. Edmund Bosworth, University of Manchester (Emeritus) Al-Tha'alibi's Adab al-muluk, A Local Mirror for Princes Julia Bray, Université Paris 8 Religious Identity, Dissimulation and Assimilation: The Ismaili Experience Farhad Daftary, Institute of Ismaili Studies Saladin's Pious Foundations in Damascus: Some New Hypotheses Anne-Marie Eddé, Institut de recherche et d'histoire des textes, CNRS The Coming of Islam to Bukhara Hugh Kennedy, School of Oriental and African Studies A Barmecide Feast: The Downfall of the Barmakids in Popular Imagination Remke Kruk, Universiteit Leiden The History of the Patriarchs of the Egyptian Church as a Source for the History of the Seljuks of Anatolia Gary Leiser, Travis Air Museum Genealogy and Exemplary Rulership in the Tarikh-i Chingiz Khan Charles Melville, University of Cambridge Vikings and Rus in Arabic Sources James E. Montgomery, University of Cambridge Qashani and Rashid al-Din on the Seljuqs of Iran Alexander H. Morton, School of Oriental and African Studies Exile and Return: Diasporas of the Secular and Sacred Mind Ian Richard Netton, University of Exeter Clerical Perceptions of Sufi Practices in Late 17th Century Persia, II: Al-Hurr al-'Amili, (d. 1693) and the Debate on the Permissibility of Ghina Andrew J. Newman, University of Edinburgh On Sunni Sectarianism A. Kevin Reinhart, Dartmouth College The Violence of the Abbasid Revolution Chase F. Robinson, City University of New York Nationalist Poetry, Conflict and Meta-linguistic Discourse Yasir Suleiman, University of Cambridge Bibliography Index